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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
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Love is patient, Love is kind,
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud, It is not rude,
It is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
Love never fails.
Corinthians 13 : 4 - 8
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Saturday, 28 July 2007 |
I don't know the story behind this
photo essay. A friend sent it to me. I colorized it. The soldiers are
giving the little pig Kagor, a sweet red wine. The auto-translation from the
Russian wikipedia reads thusly:
Kagor
(from the French. Cahors), a sweet wine, cooked red varieties of
grapes, cultivated near the town of Cahors, partial fermentation or
deliver content and then adding alcohol.
They
differ spify temno-rubinovoy colour, the completeness, soft, velvety,
fine cocoa-chocolate tones in taste and bouquet. These are
prepared in many wine regions. The main characteristic of this type of
cooking wine-cooking.
They differ spify temno-rubinovoy colour? I like that.
Beyond that, I know only that I look at this sequence of photos several
times a day. I hope you will find as much pleasure in looking at it as
I do.
BTW, did I mention that I have launched the first social networking site for pot-bellied pigs?
I still have to pretty it up, but if you know a pig, or an animal that likes pigs, please direct said beast to These Little Pigs so they can make some new friends!
And, let us drink a toast, at last, to the brave little pig the commies shot into space.
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
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Saturday, 18 November 2006 |
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The Montgomery Block one month
after the Earthquake and Fire of 1906.
The Bank Exchange sits
behind locked iron doors at the corner. A.P. Giannini's Bank of
Italy, which was to change its name to the Bank of America and
eventually become the world's largest, then occupied offices to
the right.
The following comes to us from the
Transamerica Corporation and the California Historical
Society, from a booklet originally entitled
"Secrets of Pisco
Punch Revealed: Being a true account of the recovery of San
Francisco's Long Lost Favorite of Favorites," by William
Bronson.
In the post Gold Rush days, a bar was a
very important place.
And the Bank Exchange was one of the most
important drinking establishments in San
Francisco. Located in the Montgomery and Washington Streets
corner of the famed Montgomery Block, the Bank Exchange was
the place leading bankers met to transact business in the
absence of an official stock exchange. Its proximity to the
waterfront attracted the leaders of commerce, and from the
first day the Bank Exchange’s swinging doors opened in
1853, the leading sea captains, miners, lawyers and
politicians came to discuss affairs of the day,
while partaking of liquid refreshments.
No history of the social life of San
Francisco would be complete without mention of the Bank
Exchange, a barroom that opened in 1854, survived the
Earthquake and Fire of 1906, and continued to thrive with
everwidening fame until its doors were closed forever
by Prohibition.
The principal foundation for its renown
was Pisco Punch, a mixture which, it was said, went down like
nectar and came back with the kick of a Missouri mule. Another
description is credited to Oliver Perry Stidger who for many
years managed the affairs of the Montgomery Block, that fabled
building in which the Bank Exchange was located. He likened
Pisco Punch to the scimitar of Harroun whose edge was so fine
that after a slash a man walked on unaware that his head had
been severed from his body until his knees gave way and
he fell to the ground dead.
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
- Wash dishes
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Finish setting up music studio, power supply from Mike, sample disks for emu sampler
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Get vacuum-forming machine for chess pieces
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Get supply of materials for new series (A Love Supreme wall hangings) of artwork
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Make Tangerine Sky business cards for the big do up in wine country this week
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Make list of people I owe money to, will be able to clear up soon.
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Get a wife, or 2 or 3 girlfriends, or a bunch of groupies
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Stop eating alone so much. Have dinner parties or dates. Need new place settings and silverware.
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Make some pasta to go with braised short-ribs & veggies
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Finish four or five half-finished pieces for Sun Pop Blue before starting new ones. but post every day.
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Decide what to do about fourth piece of "seasons" cd ... record new bird sounds ...
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Find a DAT machine to transfer old music tapes to hard-drive
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Hit gym 4 times a week
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Set up G3 mac and go thru all old floppies & zip disks ... old music files to export to gen midi, & hopefully, Flapping in pagemaker to import into InDesign to make pdf ...
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Look into finding illustrator to make graphic novel of Flapping.
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Finish Last Unforetold Man vocal cd: backing vocals, harmonies, string part for Take Me Down & Maia, get Angie into studio for Pop Down the Years, get some help arranging that one, also.
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Silk-screened covers for Flapping. Mini-cd with "lost" songs ...
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Shoot "Serge" modular synth videos - put up on YouTube, send to synth blogs. Post "flight of the atom bee," Flapping edit
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Begin intense targetted promotion of limited edition Flapping
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Do Year-in-the-Life-of-a-Winery & vintage spanking postcards book proposals
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Pick up new cologne - Dolce & Gabbana this time
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Help Nate develop new products for www.myhoneybun.com ... find real marketing person.
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Wash dishes right now.
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Steam-clean carpets.
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Get a house-cleaning service.
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Take care of free-lance clients.
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Raise rates.
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Focus on living life in the slow lane
- Develope multi-level marketing scheme for the Ché brand ...
- Wash dishes immediately
- Continue research regarding this wrong dimension thing we seem to be caught up in.
- Book some live shows or, failing that, do some open mic's
- Wash dishes.
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